Toxic geographies: absences in critical race thought and practice in social and cultural geography
Toxic geographies: absences in critical race thought and practice in social and cultural geography
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有毒地理学：社会和文化地理学中批判性种族思想和实践的缺失
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2014
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M. Mahtani
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M. Mahtani
开始，我想感谢编辑们给我这个机会，以我2012年格伦达法律奖赢家的身份写作。正如许多读者将知道，格伦达留下了丰富的遗产，以社会正义的地理（见法律1994年a，1994年b，1993年等），它是在这种精神，我写这篇评论。格伦达是一个地理学家感兴趣的社会问题谁研究的空间结构的社会政策。她积极致力于解构压迫与知识生产之间的关系。她不仅是一个城市地理学家，她还是一个研究者，领导者，导师和激励者，特别是对初级学者即将到来的行列。她是一个充满活力的灵魂，她的能量和热情是无与伦比的，她在会议上的表演令人着迷，吸引了专门来看她的人的拥挤的房间，她也表现出了巨大的慷慨精神。这篇评论中的每一个字都从她的活力、对公平和多样性的承诺以及政治决心和动力中汲取灵感。很荣幸以她的名义获奖。我怀疑格伦达可能是同情我的研究问题，因为她在西悉尼郊区的Cabramatta长大，那里经历了移民和定居的重大转变，在那里她目睹了种族主义的特写镜头（马修斯1997）。我以前的研究探讨了种族和种族主义模式如何塑造地理学科的有色人种学者的经验，我目前的工作探讨了空间如何限制，拒绝，符合，允许或创造不同种类的种族重新配置的机会。我即将出版的书《混血健忘症：抵制加拿大多种族的浪漫化》指出，通过对现在和未来的一致关注，对混血身份的描述允许对复杂的散居历史进行某种遗忘，在这个过程中有时会避开过去。我认为，关键的混合种族理论的发展为历史健忘症开辟了一个空间。我问，帝国形成的阴影是什么，因此社会和文化地理，2014年第15卷，第4号，359-367，http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.888297
I want to begin by thanking the editors for this opportunity to write in my capacity as the Glenda Laws Award winner for 2012. As many readers will be aware, Glenda left behind a rich legacy to social justice in geography (see Laws 1994a, 1994b, 1993 among others) and it is in this spirit I write this commentary.Glendawas a geographer interested in social problems who studied spatial structures of social policies. She was actively committed to deconstructing the relationship between oppression and knowledge production. She was not only an urban geographer—she was also a researcher, leader, mentor and motivator, particularly for junior academics coming up the ranks. She was an effervescent soul and her energy and enthusiasm was unparalleled—she gave captivating performances at conferences that spellbound the packed room of people who had come specifically to see her, and she also displayed great generosity of spirit. Every word in this commentary draws inspiration from her bubbling energy, commitment to equity and diversity, and political determination and drive. It is an honour to receive an award in her name. I suspect that Glenda may have been sympathetic to my research concerns, as she grew up in Cabramatta, a suburb of western Sydney which underwent significant transformations in immigration and settlement and where she witnessed and was concerned with racism close-up (Matthews 1997). My previous research has explored how race and patterns of racism shape the experiences of scholars of colour in the discipline of geography, and my current work examines how space constricts, refuses, conforms, allows or creates opportunities for different kinds of racial reconfigurations. My forthcoming book, Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada makes the case that accounts of mixed race identity have allowed for a certain sort of forgetting of complex diasporic histories through a concerted focus on the present and the future, which in the process sometimes eschews the past. I suggest that developments in critical mixed race theory have opened up a space for historical amnesia. I ask, what are the shadows that are cast by imperial formations that consequently Social & Cultural Geography, 2014 Vol. 15, No. 4, 359–367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.888297